Certain Quotes
7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors
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He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose…
— Patrick Carman
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I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.
— Lori Handeland
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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or…
— William James
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Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
— David Foster Wallace
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People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
— Richard P. Feynman
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You…
— Salman Rushdie
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Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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there are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or…
— John Dos Passos
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them…
— Patricia Briggs
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
— Paulo Coelho
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That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to…
— Ann Patchett
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of…
— C.S. Lewis
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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something…
— Nicholas Sparks
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